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Going off on the name makes your entire question and argument subjective and useless in a constructive discussion.

In-general it seems that Rust proponents want ease and modernity to replace the ability to do the same in C better, with more control and intent, and with better results.

Rust is less tight. That’s fine for an application, but the kernel is used by everyone who uses Linux.

Rustians disparage C because it doesn’t have Rust behavior.

Why must the kernel have Rust behavior?

> Rustians disparage C

No, the 50+ years of ridiculously unavoidable memory corruption errors have done more to disparage C than anyone working in another language.

I don't think C should be disparaged at all. Just because I prefer torx screws doesn't mean phillips screws were a horrible idea. They were brilliantly simple and enormously effective. I can't think of a single situation in which I wouldn't prefer torx, but torx wasn't an option historically and phillips was not the wrong decision at the time. Times change.

So should the tools.

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